Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization Mapper

Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization Mapper
Coordinates	40°20′41″N 74°39′17″W / 40.3446°N 74.6547°W / 40.3446; -74.6547Coordinates: 40°20′41″N 74°39′17″W / 40.3446°N 74.6547°W / 40.3446; -74.6547

CAPMAP is an experiment at Princeton university to measure the polarization of the Cosmic microwave background.

External links

CAPMAP Homepage

Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB)

Discovery of CMB radiation
Timeline of CMB astronomy

Effects

Cosmic variance
Diffusion damping
Recombination
Sachs–Wolfe effect
Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect
Thomson scattering

9-year WMAP image (2012) of the CMB.

Experiments

Space	COBE Planck RELIKT-1 WMAP

Balloon	Archeops ARCADE BOOMERanG EBEX MAXIMA QMAP Spider TopHat

Ground	ABS ACBAR ACT AMI AMiBA APEX ATCA BICEP BICEP2 BICEP3 BIMA CAPMAP CAT CBI CLASS COSMOSOMAS DASI Keck Array MAT OVRO POLARBEAR QUaD QUBIC QUIET QUIJOTE Saskatoon SPT SZA Tenerife VSA

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Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization Mapper

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